Nothing that happened this week in Washington, likely to have much immediate and noticeable impact on the life of any person. Instead, the main event of the week was important for the fact that they are about the future.
With retirement, the most powerful leader of the Congress for the return of the former Director of the FBI, significant changes in the movement. Special adviser to the Robert Mueller investigation is moving closer to the heart of the trump business Empire with the queries in the commercial Affairs of the trump organization you’re consiglieri, and one of the most influential leaders dragged before Congress that probably should be seen as a watershed moment in Silicon valley’s relationship with the capital.
Here’s what you need to know.
The speaker of the house Paul Ryan out of Congress
After his staff spent months angrily denied that he had plans to resign, the speaker of the house Paul Ryan announced Wednesday morning that he will not stand for re-election in November’s Congress and thus will not serve as leader of the Republican party after the midterm elections.
- Why it matters: although Ryan has defined it as a purely personal decision related to family, retirement not only creates another open day place for the GOP to defend, but also serves as a de facto vote of no confidence in the party, the chances of prevailing in the election, which could cause more retirements and fundraising woes.
- Free place: Ryan wireless-1 congressional seat was considered safe until the speaker ran for election, but the cook political report reclassified it as “leans Republican” without Ryan. VOX Ella Nielsen an interview with Randy Bruce and Cathy Myers, the two Democrats on the seat. The Republicans haven’t recruited create your favorite candidate to succeed Ryan, but the white nationalist Paul Nehlen has an aggressive campaign in the primary of the Republican party.
- And the GOP leadership contest: house majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was adopted as the candidate for the post of speaker due to objections from the right wing of the Congress John Boehner resigned, and it is likely that majority whip Steve Scalise (R-La) will try to call him for the top job next year.
Mr. Zuckerberg went to Washington
Before the chorus of criticism, much of it is connected to Cambridge, Analytics, Facebook founder and CEO mark Zuckerberg flew to Washington to testify before both houses of Congress.
- Mark Zuckerberg’m sorry: Zuckerberg, the main idea was to say that he regrets that Facebook screwed up and that he accepts responsibility for the mistake. It’s kind of an apology, Zuckerberg is doing since he was a sophomore in College, who run a popular website based on the hacking of a server in the hostel to lure pictures of his classmates.
- In the dodged question: How VOX Emily Stewart writes, members of Congress repeatedly pressed Zuckerberg for information about how Facebook users can control what data is shared with advertisers, and he has replied with links to the privacy settings that control what other users see Facebook.
- The real action is elsewhere: Congress is considering several bills that could affect Facebook, but there is little sign that it will actually return to top the regulatory agenda. Instead, the real action is likely to come from Europe, where the General data protection regulation entered into force or the Federal trade Commission and other regulatory authorities to which Congress has delegated a lot of energy.
The FBI raised the office of Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen, Donald trump’s attorney and fixer, found his office was raided by FBI agents working under the auspices of the U.S. attorney for the southern district of new York (although seemingly at the behest of legal counsel Robert Muller), agents for the seizure of documents related to Stormy Daniels by the way.
- Trump lost the RAID provoked a new round of trump furious, including Twitter fulmination that “the lawyer-the client is dead!” (there is a “crime-fraud exemption” in honor) and speculation about trump firing Muller and/or the Deputy General Prosecutor rod Rosenstein.
- Trump has been caught in the net: by noon on Thursday, trump was striking a more restrained tone, says his cooperation with the investigation and assistance of his senior associate, Ty Cobb.
- Republicans are nervous: the Republicans in Congress was given to understand quite clearly that they don’t want trump to do anything rash like fire Muller, but they are not going to stop him.
James Komi began to promote his book
Book ex-FBI Director James Comey about ready to hit bookstores, the first comments edition on Thursday night and a series of high-profile interviews planned for the weekend. Roots is clearly not a trump fan, and the GOP is ready to strike back.
- Komi on the tube: in the book, Komei writes that trump is “unethical, and is bound to the truth and institutional values” and compares his crew the mafia family he explored early in his career. “Silent circle of assent. Boss in total control. The loyalty oath. The US vs them worldview. The lie about all things, big and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth”.
- Political resistance: the Republicans began a campaign of aggressive anti-Komi resistance, centered on a new website called lie Komi, who trolls the Democrats with their old anti-Komi quotes from the 2016 campaign.
- Legal resistance: more specifically, on Friday, the trump pardoned Scooter Libby, dick Cheney, the assistant, who was convicted in 2007 of perjury to the FBI and obstructing justice in the investigation conducted by special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appointed himself Komi Republic, at the time, was Deputy attorney General.
Sourse: vox.com
